On May 7, 2004, at 9:53 AM, Will Hill wrote: > Those are not computer problems or user problems, they are Microsoft > problems. > Malware, spyware and all the things you have to do to get around it > are 100% > Microsoft. Why is the campus jumping into more of the same?
It is not a 100% Microsoft problem. Even I will admit that. In fact, the one time I had an active hacker in my network (not just a script kiddie type) it was coming from a Linux box on a DSL line. Obviously the person with the DSL was not the hacker, but the linux box was a proxy for the hacker. The ISP was not willing to deal with it. So, in the days before I had a firewall this person made me wake up to reality and realize that while 98% of the problems are microsoft, the other 2% are very real. The annoyances are all M$, but the real damaging stuff is not. Now we have a layered defense. Firewalls, host updates & patches, etc. etc. etc. This includes my Solaris, Linux, & Mac boxes just as much as it does my M$ boxes. > > What's your beef about wireless, except that a hoard of vendors are > ready to > rip the University off? The point is that, like he said, you end up with things like rogue dhcp servers, open unencrypted links for people to sniff, get in the network at disallowed points, etc. > > I don't get the point. I understand that some customers may be > difficult to > deal with. That does not excuse the treatment some very competent Unix > administrators have received. I agree. Things must be taken on an individual or departmental basis somewhere as large as LSU. At SLU, it may be different since it is a smaller campus. But at LSU, they cannot just make a blanket statement. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- Shannon Roddy LIGO - Caltech 225.686.3106 (work) 225.686.3174 (work #2) 225.933.7821 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
